Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age

      • Christian Fuchs, Eran Fisher

      Pages 3-25

   3. The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo

      • Christian Fuchs

      Pages 26-41

   4. The Hands and Brains of Digital Culture: Arguments for an Inclusive Approach to Cultural Labour

      • Marisol Sandoval

      Pages 42-59

3. Labour and Class

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. A Contribution to a Critique of the Concept Playbour

      • Arwid Lund

      Pages 63-79

   3. Marx in Chinese Online Space: Some Thoughts on the Labour Problem in Chinese Internet Industries

      • Bingqing Xia

      Pages 80-95

4. The Labour of Internet Users

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. The Exploitation of Audience Labour: A Missing Perspective on Communication and Capital in the Digital Era

      • Brice Nixon

      Pages 99-114

   3. Audience Labour on Social Media: Learning from Sponsored Stories

      • Eran Fisher

      Pages 115-132

   4. Advertising on Social Media: The Reality behind the Ideology of “Free Access”: The Case of Chinese Social Media Platforms

      • Yuqi Na

      Pages 133-150

5. Rent and the Commons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Mapping Approaches to User Participation and Digital Labour: A Critical Perspective

      • Thomas Allmer, Sebastian Sevignani, Jernej Amon Prodnik

      Pages 153-171

   3. Is the Concept of Rent Relevant to a Discussion of Surplus Value in the Digital World?

      • Olivier Frayssé

      Pages 172-187

   4. The Demise of the Marxian Law of Value? A Critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

      • Jakob Rigi

      Pages 188-204

6. Productivity in Reproduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour

      • Kylie Jarrett

      Pages 207-223

   3. The Concept of Subsumption of Labour to Capital: Towards Life Subsumption in Bio-Cognitive Capitalism

      • Andrea Fumagalli

      Pages 224-245

   4. Form-Giving Fire: Creative Industries as Marx’s “Work of Combustion” and the Distinction between Productive and Unproductive Labour

      • Frederick H. Pitts

      Pages 246-260

This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in order to shed light on specific practices.

• capital
• communication
• feminism
• Internet
• intervention
• Karl Marx
• Marx
• Marxism
• participation
• work

• Open University of Israel, Israel

  Eran Fisher

• University of Westminster, UK

  Christian Fuchs

Thomas Allmer, University of Edinburgh, UK. Olivier Frayssé, University of Paris Sorbonne, France. Andrea Fumagalli, University of Pavia, Italy. Kylie Jarrett, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland. Arwid Lund, University of Uppsala, Sweden. Yuqi Na, University of Westminster, UK. Brice Nixon, University of La Verne, US. Frederick H. Pitts, University of Bath, UK. Jernej Amon Prodnik, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Jakob Rigi, SOAS, London University, UK. Marisol Sandoval, City University London, UK. Sebastian Sevignani, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Germany. Bingqing Xia, Macau University of Science and Technology, China.

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